Alice Starmore's Charts for Color Knitting

Alice Starmore's Charts for Color KnittingIn the course of her career as an internationally recognized authority on knitting design and instruction, Alice Starmore has acquired a remarkable collection of charted designs for color knitting. This treasury features a choice selection of her source material, arranged into four parts: (1) Traditional patterns from Europe, Russia, and South America (2) Adaptations from textiles and other art, including Japanese porcelain and Celtic metalwork (3)

" ― Joyce Carol Oates

excited a scandal upon its 1923 publication

illuminating

Starting with the nuts-and-bolts basics — including choice of paper

put it to their ears

The first book to introduce knitting as an art form

1–3 (First set of "Tost Quartets" composed c

Contents include Suite Española

Based on authoritative French editions

The author focuses on common situations arising from practical over-the-board play

with captions translated from the original French of scholar Camille Bonnard and magnificent illustrations by Roman artist and engraver Paul Mercuri

but collectors